X not starting

[Rick Stevens]

Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> I had a similar error after installing FC1 minimal and then adding KDE.  
> I was able to fix by commenting a line in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> 
> #       FontPath     "unix/:7100"

You shouldn't comment out that line, but rather make sure the xfs daemon
is running.  xfs is the X font server and it runs on the Unix domain
socket at 7100, which is what that line is trying to use.

> Russell Peterson wrote:
> 
>> fatal server error could not open default font 'fixed'
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Andy Green
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:26 AM
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Subject: Re: X not starting
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>> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 16:19, Russell Peterson wrote:
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>>> I ran up2date and did upgrade the kernel.  The up2date utility did crash
>>> with some type of RPM error when the packages were being installed. 
>>> Doesn't sound good, eh?
>>>   
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>> See what X has to say, have a look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
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>> - -Andy
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